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Definition Of Alternative Provider Types

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Acupuncture

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Acupuncture involves stimulating specific anatomic points in the body for therapeutic purposes. Puncturing the skin with a needle is the usual method of application, but practitioners also use heat, pressure, friction, suction, or impulses of electromagnetic energy to stimulate points.

Aromatherapy

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Aromatherapy involves the use of fragrance from pure essential oils of plants. These oils can affect moods, minds, bodies, and healing.

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Chiropractic

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Chiropractic is concerned with the preservation and restoration of health, and focuses particular attention in the subluxation (vertebral subluxation complex). A subluxation is a complex of functional and/or structural and/or pathological articular changes that compromise neural (relating to the nervous system) integrity and may influence organ system function and general health. A subluxation is evaluated, diagnosed, and managed through the use of chiropractic procedures based on the best available rational and empirical evidence.

Craniosacral Therapy

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Craniosacral Therapy is gentle, hands-on treatment method that focuses on alleviating restrictions of physiological motion of all bones of the skull, including face and mouth, as well as the vertebral column, sacrum, coccyx, and pelvis.

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Energy Healing

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Energy Healing has many different forms, but all work on the basis that the practitioner has special training and abilities to sense/see the energy flow in and around a person. Using that information, the practitioner can help that person heal themselves. Healing may take place on physical, emotional, or spiritual levels.

Eye Movement Desensitization

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Eye Movement Desensitization EMDR) is an interactional standardized approach and complex method of psychotherapy that integrates many of the elements of a range of therapeutic approaches in combination with eye movements or other forms of rhythmical stimulation in ways that stimulate the brain’s information processing system. EMDR accelerates the treatment of a wide range of pathologies and self-esteem issues related to both upsetting past events and present life conditions.

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Flower Essences

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Flower Essences are liquid vibrational remedies that can support deep and lasting changes on the soul level of ones’ being. They are safe and powerful allies that can harmonize the mind, body and spirit in the quest for health and well being.

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Healing Touch

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Healing Touch s an energy-based therapeutic approach to healing. Touch is utilized, on or off the body, to work with the energy systems of the client to restore harmony and balance to all levels of being and to help the client self-heal.

Herbs and Herbal Prescriptions

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Herbs and herbal prescriptions cover the entire range of medical ailments, including pain, hormonal disturbances, breathing disorders, infections, and chronic diseases.

Homeopathy

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Homeopathy is based on the principle of similars or “like cures like”; that is, a substance that can cause certain symptoms when given to a healthy person can cure those same symptoms in someone who is sick.

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